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Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern American Poetry. 1919.

John Gould Fletcher1886–1950

The Skaters

BLACK swallows swooping or gliding

In a flurry of entangled loops and curves;

The skaters skim over the frozen river.

And the grinding click of their skates as they impinge upon the surface,

Is like the brushing together of thin wing-tips of silver.